"Nikky Smedley Nicola Jane Smedley (born 20 October 1970, in Solihull) is an English actress, dancer, choreographer, television director and producer. Smedley is best known for her role as Laa Laa in the BBC children's show ""Teletubbies"", which she played from 1997 until 2001. Smedley creates and performs work for children and young people, and has been doing so for three decades. She is best known for playing the yellow Teletubby, Laa Laa in the BBC children's series ""Teletubbies"" between 1997 and 2001, and for her involvement in choreographing Ragdoll Productions' ""Boohbah"" and ""In the Night Garden..."". In 2012, Smedley"
"Teletubbies Teletubbies is a British pre-school children's television series created by Ragdoll Productions' Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport. The programme focuses on four multi-coloured creatures known as ""Teletubbies"", named after the television screens implanted in their abdomens. Recognised throughout popular culture for the uniquely shaped antenna protruding from the head of each character, the Teletubbies communicate through gibberish and were designed to bear resemblance to toddlers. Particularly notable for its high production values, the series rapidly became a commercial success in Britain and abroad. It won multiple BAFTA awards and was nominated for two Daytime Emmys throughout its run. A"
"by Andrew McCrorie-Shand and Andrew Davenport, and produced by McCrorie-Shand and Steve James. The single reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1997, and remained in the Top 75 for 32 weeks after its release. In December 2017, Teletubbies Play Time was released worldwide for mobile devices by Built Games. Teletubbies Teletubbies is a British pre-school children's television series created by Ragdoll Productions' Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport. The programme focuses on four multi-coloured creatures known as ""Teletubbies"", named after the television screens implanted in their abdomens. Recognised throughout popular culture for the uniquely shaped antenna protruding"
"series have several parallels. Whereas the teddybears eat ""hot cross buns, honey, pancakes, jelly and ice cream"", the Teletubbies eat ""tubby toast and tubby custard"". The teddybears sing ""The Teddybear Song"" while the Teletubbies sing ""Teletubbies say ""Eh-oh!"""". A difference between the two TV series is that ""Teddybears""s intended audience is older children. The shows' similarities sparked ""intense"" coverage by the media. Newspapers and TV shows requested interviews with the teddybears, who all appeared on Richard and Judy's ""This Morning"". The five teddybears in the series are William, Sara, Louise, Robert, and Charles. They wear ""brightly-coloured furry suits"" and live"
"populated by rabbits with bird calls audible in the background. The main shelter of the four Teletubbies is an earth house known as the ""Tubbytronic Superdome"" implanted in the ground and accessed through a hole at the top or an especially large semicircular door at the dome's foot. The creatures co-exist with a number of strange contraptions such as the Noo-noo, the group's anthropomorphic blue vacuum cleaner, and the Voice Trumpets. The show's colourful, psychedelic setting was designed specifically to appeal to the attention spans of infants and unlock different sections of the mind while also educating young children of"
"Bitsy Entertainment, which licenses the ""Teletubbies"" in the United States, said, ""I really find it absurd and kind of offensive."" The UK show was aimed at pre-school children, but the article stated ""he is purple – the gay pride color; and his antenna is shaped like a triangle – the gay-pride symbol"". Apart from those characteristics Tinky Winky also carries a magic bag which the ""NLJ"" and ""Salon"" articles said was a purse. Falwell added that ""role modeling the gay lifestyle is damaging to the moral lives of children"". After the September 11 attacks in 2001, Falwell said on Pat"
"go back to the Tubbytronic Superdome while the Sun Baby sets. On 31 March 1997, the first episode of ""Teletubbies"" aired on BBC2. It filled a timeslot previously held by ""Playdays"". This schedule change initially received backlash from parents, but the show was not moved. The programme's unconventional format quickly received attention from the media, and it was attracting two million viewers per episode by August. In February 1998, ""The Sydney Morning Herald"" noted that it had ""reached cult status"" in less than a year on the air. ""Teletubbies"" has been aired in over 120 countries in 45 different languages."
"Lumby joined the ""New Kool Morning Crew"", heard on 105.3 Kool FM in Kitchener/Waterloo. Jeff Lumby Jeff Lumby is a Canadian actor and voice actor. He is a member of the Lumby family, who created and produced the 1980s Canadian children's television series, ""Size Small"", where he appeared as ""Tex"". Lumby played ""Winston Rothschild III"", the septic tank and sewer technician character on ""The Red Green Show"" and ""Duct Tape Forever"". Lumby is involved in ""Skatoony"" on Teletoon. ""Skatoony"" which was originally developed in the UK debuted in Canada in 2010 and Jeff voices one of the new additions to"
"the name of a show for children, with TV shows for young viewers. A plush mouse called Bino served as ""announcer"" between the different TV series often consisting of animated shows, which included ""He-Man and the Masters of the Universe"", ""Bobobobs"", ""The Raccoons"", ""Filmation Ghostbusters"", ""Around the World with Willy Fog"", ""The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin"", ""Alvin and the Chipmunks"", ""The Smurfs"", ""Fantastic Max"", ""Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics"", ""Saber Rider"", ""Queen Millennia"", ""Captain Future"", or ""Anne of Green Gables"". At the time, most of the other channels had a few weekly or daily series for children. Some channels had ""double"
"The Teletubbies have not had another such hit, making them a one-hit wonder. The song contains two nursery rhymes, the Teletubbies hum along to ""Baa, Baa, Black Sheep"" and the flowers from Teletubbyland sing ""Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary"". There was considerable anticipation that it would be the Christmas number one in 1997 and it was the betting favorite at William Hill at odds of 6–4. This race was said to have been decided by the under-10 age group as the rival Spice Girls were popular with seven-year-old girls while the Teletubbies were more popular with younger children. Siobhan Ennis, the"
"Jeff Lumby Jeff Lumby is a Canadian actor and voice actor. He is a member of the Lumby family, who created and produced the 1980s Canadian children's television series, ""Size Small"", where he appeared as ""Tex"". Lumby played ""Winston Rothschild III"", the septic tank and sewer technician character on ""The Red Green Show"" and ""Duct Tape Forever"". Lumby is involved in ""Skatoony"" on Teletoon. ""Skatoony"" which was originally developed in the UK debuted in Canada in 2010 and Jeff voices one of the new additions to the North American version, Studio Executive and Producer, Charles La Puck. Jeff has provided"
"the musical Jellaby that plays the saxophone; Bouncey, who lives in a bumper car, is yellow, Denny, who lives in a boat on the jelly-lake, is blue, Pepper, who lives in a tree house, is red, the twins Amber and Coral, (which they are orange and pink, respectively). Amber lives in a hot air balloon and Coral lives in a house made out of building blocks and toys which she can modify her house as she pleases, and finally Duffy the green Dragon, the only non-Jellaby character in the entire show, lives in the Jelly Caves. 1. Caterpillar (18 May"
"Mouse – A knitted mouse with a red dotted head band Tom – A boy rag doll with brown hair Teddington - A teddy bear with a green waistcoat and black bow-tie Some episodes have an animated section featuring a cartoon called ""Uki"" about an eponymous little yellow character who conveys emotions through laughter and smiles. Other episodes feature Penelope the inquisitive blue koala as the animated section. The show takes place on the top floor of a tower and each episode begins by climbing the ten-storey tower block lift where a child's voice counts from one to ten. On"
"about odd things). Both the clock and the three window option live on in the children's programme ""Tikkabilla"", which borrows much from ""Play School"", while a similar choice of portal into a film clip was provided by the abdomen-mounted video displays in the children's show ""Teletubbies"". Most of the programmes were studio-based, but there were a number of outside broadcasts at a variety of locations, such as zoos, seasides, central London, churches, schools and farms. There would also be songs, games, poems and stories, as well as regular painting and craft activities. The presenters would frequently invite the younger viewers"
"Olobob Top Olobob Top is a British children's television series that originally aired on CBeebies in UK, S4C in Wales, and ABC Kids/ABC4 Kids/ABC for Kids in Australia. The programme is narrated by Stephen Mangan. The series follows a group of young creative creatures called the Olobobs. Tib, Lalloo and Bobble live in a big forest and have fun playing, exploring and solving everyday problems. In each episode, they work together combining shapes, colours and patterns to create a new character, who joins in with the Olobobs’ fun, while a friendly narrator encourages them to think for themselves. The first"
"the spring of 2007 following the show's tenth anniversary. It also aired on Sprout from September 2005 to August 2009. The revived series has aired on Nick Jr. since 30 May 2016. Teletubbies – The Album Teletubbies – The Album is an album that was released based on the popular children's show of the same name. The album's single ""Teletubbies Say 'Eh-oh!"" was a number-one hit in the UK Singles Chart in December 1997 and reached number 13 in the Dutch Singles Chart in late 1998. Dipsy - Vocals (on Teletubbies say Eh-oh! and Dipsy's Fancy Hat). Piano, Keyboard, Synthesizer,"
"Nazitübbies Nazitübbies is a series of shorts currently () appearing in the former Danish satirical late-night talk show ""den 11. time"". The show is a parody of the BBC's children's television series ""Teletubbies"", and it tries to envisage what this show would have looked like, had the Nazis won World War II. Nazitübbies features the four colourful characters: Heinrich Himmler as Tinky Winky (actually Dipsy) (who is black instead of green), Joseph Goebbels as Dipsy (actually Laa-Laa) (who is gold instead of yellow), Hermann Göring as Laa-Laa (actually Tinky Winky) (who is blue instead of purple) and Rudolf Hess as"
"Fluffy Gardens Fluffy Gardens is an Irish preschool animation television show created, written and directed by Jason Tammemagi and produced by Monster Animation & Design Ltd. Each seven-minute episode tells the story of a different character. Characters include Paolo the Cat, Lola the Mosquito, Wee Reg the Puppy, George the Mean Yellow Dog, and the Small Green Thing. The show is distributed internationally by Target Entertainment. The show airs currently on Radio Telefís Éireann in Ireland, Cartoonito and CITV in the UK, Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Australia and Discovery Kids (as ""Fofópolis"" in Brazil, ""Fabulópolis"" across Latin America) and Smile"
"Untalkative Bunny Untalkative Bunny is a Canadian/British co-produced animated series about a yellow rabbit and its life in the big city (closely based on Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.) The series consists of small episodes (about 4–5 minutes long each), and have been aired by Teletoon, as well as Disney Channel in many parts of the world including the UK & France (excluding the US). The show was first seen in the KaBlam! episode ""KaFun!"", and then the show first aired on Teletoon on April 15, 2001. The show was written by Karolina Craig & Jordan Craig with Graham Falk as creative"
"Telly Monster Telly Monster, known usually as just Telly, is an eternally worrying, fuchsia monster Muppet on ""Sesame Street"". He is puppeteered by Martin P. Robinson. On his debut in 1979, he was known as the ""Television Monster"", a character that was fixated on television. His name is derived from the British slang term for a television, ""telly"". Initially the character had antennae standing out of the top of his head, and his eyes would whirl around when he watched television. In Telly's first ""Sesame Street"" appearance, when he was performed by Bob Payne, a T.V. obsessed Telly, enters Hooper's"
"Tikkabilla Tikkabilla is a UK children's television programme, shown on BBC One, BBC Two and on the CBeebies channel. The programme aims to educate pre-school children in an entertaining manner. The title ""Tikkabilla"" comes from the Hindi word meaning ""Hopscotch"", a popular children's game. Each programme is introduced by two adults and a small dragon puppet named Tamba, who resembles Spyro the Dragon in colouration. Tamba serves as the programme's naive child; the programme's educational content is introduced as the presenters explain things to Tamba. Whilst Tamba appears in every episode, a team of presenters take it in turns to"
"an animated clip from ""Hotch Potch House"". Tikkabilla began in 2002 and was produced by the BBC's pre-school unit. Tikkabilla Tikkabilla is a UK children's television programme, shown on BBC One, BBC Two and on the CBeebies channel. The programme aims to educate pre-school children in an entertaining manner. The title ""Tikkabilla"" comes from the Hindi word meaning ""Hopscotch"", a popular children's game. Each programme is introduced by two adults and a small dragon puppet named Tamba, who resembles Spyro the Dragon in colouration. Tamba serves as the programme's naive child; the programme's educational content is introduced as the presenters"
"comics. Big Ear Tutu Big Ear Tutu (Chinese: 大耳朵图图) is a Chinese cartoon television series. Its main character is Hu Tutu, a young boy with very large ears. The boy (also known as Big Ear Tutu) is inquisitive and energetic. Often his curiosity drives the plot of the episode. His vivid imagination is especially part of his personality. He often learns from his mother and father, with whom he has a loving relationship. The series was nominated for the 23rd Golden Eagle Awards. It is popular among preschool age children in China. The main character is also featured in books"
"of a Child in the United States. The show has sold in over 100 countries worldwide. Fluffy Gardens Fluffy Gardens is an Irish preschool animation television show created, written and directed by Jason Tammemagi and produced by Monster Animation & Design Ltd. Each seven-minute episode tells the story of a different character. Characters include Paolo the Cat, Lola the Mosquito, Wee Reg the Puppy, George the Mean Yellow Dog, and the Small Green Thing. The show is distributed internationally by Target Entertainment. The show airs currently on Radio Telefís Éireann in Ireland, Cartoonito and CITV in the UK, Australian Broadcasting"
"series began airing on CBeebies on 17 July 2017. Olobob Top Olobob Top is a British children's television series that originally aired on CBeebies in UK, S4C in Wales, and ABC Kids/ABC4 Kids/ABC for Kids in Australia. The programme is narrated by Stephen Mangan. The series follows a group of young creative creatures called the Olobobs. Tib, Lalloo and Bobble live in a big forest and have fun playing, exploring and solving everyday problems. In each episode, they work together combining shapes, colours and patterns to create a new character, who joins in with the Olobobs’ fun, while a friendly"
"Big Ear Tutu Big Ear Tutu (Chinese: 大耳朵图图) is a Chinese cartoon television series. Its main character is Hu Tutu, a young boy with very large ears. The boy (also known as Big Ear Tutu) is inquisitive and energetic. Often his curiosity drives the plot of the episode. His vivid imagination is especially part of his personality. He often learns from his mother and father, with whom he has a loving relationship. The series was nominated for the 23rd Golden Eagle Awards. It is popular among preschool age children in China. The main character is also featured in books and"
"subsequently animated in a software application called CelAction. The cartoons are also notable for their use of children's voices, rather than adult voice actors, a technique pioneered by the Peanuts television specials. The first series of 26 episodes (11 minutes each) was first broadcast on 7 November 2005. . The second series of 26 episodes (again, 11 minutes each) started broadcasting on CBeebies on 2 October 2006 (with the morning broadcast also being shown on BBC Two) a third series followed. In the television series, Charlie is seven and Lola is four, and goes to school (her teacher is called"
"Jibba Jabba Jibba Jabba was a British pre-school television series which aired on the children's block Tiny Living on the channel Living TV. The series is a computer animation series consisting of 32 five-minute episodes. It centers around two friends, 'Mo' and 'Max'. In each episode one character approaches a tree-house containing a dressing up box for Mo or Max to become a part of the story told in the episode. The stories told would often be a reenactment of a famous fairy tale or rhyme. Each episode included audience participation from children, calling out or responding. The series was"
"and not go to work tomorrow, which also leads to the economy collapsing, making the United States being doomed. Elmo calms him down, saying that it's just a TV Show, making David Alan Grier scold him. Telly Monster Telly Monster, known usually as just Telly, is an eternally worrying, fuchsia monster Muppet on ""Sesame Street"". He is puppeteered by Martin P. Robinson. On his debut in 1979, he was known as the ""Television Monster"", a character that was fixated on television. His name is derived from the British slang term for a television, ""telly"". Initially the character had antennae standing"
"Tiny and Crew Tiny and Crew is a British pre-school series which aired on Tiny TCC. Tiny TCC was replaced in 1997 by Living TV's time slot Tiny Living where the show continued. Tiny was a huge yellow yeti (Known in the series as a Wigasaurus) Tiny had bright blue hair and was known for being larger the life. Tiny had a fixed age of just 5 years in the show. Tiny could not speak any English but as children would see he loved to learn new things about life. Tiny was joined by Dog who loved nothing more than"
"Show Me Show Me Show Me Show Me is a television show on CBeebies presented by Chris Jarvis (""Step Inside"") and Pui Fan Lee (""Teletubbies""). Aimed at pre-school children the shows teach and show children and read stories about their toys. It began in 2009. The show features five toys: Mo Mo, Tom, Stuffy, Miss Mouse, and Teddington, each of which appear in their own song as well as in a story book adventure. Stuffy – A felt cube with orange hair and a pocket at the back Mo Mo – A girl robot with poseable head and arms Miss"
"presented and narrated by a puppet called 'Dog', as seen on sister show ""Tiny and Crew"". Dog also provided in-vision presentation for the channel's Tiny Living strand. Jibba Jabba Jibba Jabba was a British pre-school television series which aired on the children's block Tiny Living on the channel Living TV. The series is a computer animation series consisting of 32 five-minute episodes. It centers around two friends, 'Mo' and 'Max'. In each episode one character approaches a tree-house containing a dressing up box for Mo or Max to become a part of the story told in the episode. The stories"
"Jellabies The Jellabies (also known as Jellikins in some parts of Europe and in the USA) is a television animation series that aired on the Australian television network ABC Kids. It was also shown in Germany, USA (Fox Family), The Netherlands (Kindernet), UK (GMTV) and many other territories. Its target audience is children in the age of 2–6 years old. It was one of the first fully CGI-animated series in the world. The program was created using computer-generated imagery (CGI) animation. The show was narrated by Rik Mayall. The Jellabies are jelly made people that live in the Jolly Jelly"